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| • | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | [X] |
| | 1 | Name: | Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella | | | Institution: | Supreme Court of Canada | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | International | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1946 | | | | | | |
Justice Rosalie Abella, born in a displaced persons’ camp to survivors of Theresienstadt and Buchenwald and brought to Canada as a young child, has been honored around the world as a leading voice for human rights among judges of the world’s high courts. Abella is an expert on human rights law and has taught at McGill Law School. She has authored several books and over 75 articles. She was called to the Ontario bar in 1972 and appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 2004. Her 14 years on the Canadian Supreme Court have been distinguished for the clarity and wisdom of her opinions.
At an earlier phase of her career, her work on equal employment opportunity established an analytical framework that the Canadian Supreme Court and courts around the world have adopted. In the past she has been a member of the Human Rights Commission of Ontario, of the Ontario Public Service Labour Relations Tribunal, and was the first woman chair of the Ontario Labour Relations Board. Rosalie Silberman Abella was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. | |
| 2 | Name: | Ms. Sara Miller McCune | | | Institution: | SAGE Publishing | | | Year Elected: | 2018 | | | Class: | 5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs | | | Subdivision: | 502. Physicians, Theologians, Lawyers, Jurists, Architects, and Members of Other Professions | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1941 | | | | | | |
Sara Miller McCune is the founder and executive chairman of SAGE Publishing, with subsidiary companies and sales offices in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., London, India, East Asia, Cairo, Melbourne and Latin America. McCune remains actively involved in the company’s ongoing expansion and development. SAGE Publishing is unique in that McCune has put in place an estate plan that guarantees continued independence indefinitely via a charitable trust that will secure the unique mission, vision, and values of the company.
McCune is also co-founder and president of the McCune Foundation, based in Ventura, California. In 2007, she founded the Santa Barbara-based Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy which launched the award-winning print and online magazine Pacific Standard. In 2017, the magazine and the center’s mission were transferred to The Social Justice Foundation, a non-profit organization supported by SAGE Publishing. She is currently a member of the board of directors of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a member of the board of directors and the chairman of the visiting committee of the Social Science Research Council. McCune is a graduate of Queens College and the recipient of honorary doctorates from Queens College, University of Sussex, University of Bath, and California State University Channel Islands. She has also been recognized as an honorary alumna of UCSB and an honorary Fellow of Cardiff University and of Pembroke College, Oxford. | |
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